Lavina
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ɫɑˈvinə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Lavina is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 109K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 123K
- GYGuyana1 in 29K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 246 (measured from records)
- 1 in 29K (inferred from the name graph)
2,697 people, 2020
Highest-authority source
Guyana
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Sources 1
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Lavina counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 2,697 | 1 in 123K | 2.7K | Lavina | 246 |
| ID Indonesia | ≈1,800 est. | ≈1 in 150K | — | Lavina | 57 |
| BR Brazil | 1,346 | 1 in 157K | 1.3K | — | 1 |
| KE Kenya | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 47K | — | Lavina | 13 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈600 est. | ≈1 in 109K | listed | Lavina | 98 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | ≈200 est. | ≈1 in 51K | — | Lavina | 37 |
| SG Singapore | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 51K | — | Lavina | 22 |
| KW Kuwait | ≈42 est. | ≈1 in 71K | — | Lavina | 13 |
| GY Guyana | 26 | 1 in 29K | 26 | — | 2 |
2,697 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; the gb-nisra-baby-names-ni register; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Lavina is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Romanian, definite nominative/accusative singular of lavină
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Czech, avalanche (large sliding mass of snow and ice)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Serbo-Croatian, avalanche
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Italian, snowslide
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Lavinia Smithb. 1871GBnot in their usual nameBritish teacher and museum founder (1871-1944)
- Lavina Lickleyb. 1936CAresearcher and surgeon in breast cancer prevention (born 1936)
- Lavina Fielding Andersonb. 1944USLatter Day Saint scholar, writer, editor, and feminist
- Lavina Williamsb. 1979NZNew Zealand musician and musical theatre performer
- Lavina Martinsb. 1993KEbadminton player
- Lavina Holab. 1996PGPapuan association football player
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 59 sources across 31 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 2.7K | #6,061 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 1.3K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 1.3K | #6,769 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 859 | #10,133 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2020 | 260 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 56 | — |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 26 | #568 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 10 | #6,061 |
| GB United Kingdom | NISRA — Baby names Northern Ireland full list (1997–present) | 2013 | — | — |
| GB United Kingdom | The Penguin Book of Baby Names (David Pickering) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- In which country does Lavina have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 2.7 thousand people named Lavina, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled lavina.
- Where is Lavina most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Lavina is densest in Guyana — about 1 in 29 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How do you pronounce Lavina?
- A machine transcription gives /ɫɑˈvinə/ (IPA) for English.
- Is Lavina a male or female name?
- Lavina is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What are other forms of the name Lavina?
- In the etymology graph, Lavinia and Lavena are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How common is the name Lavina?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,697 people named Lavina in 2020, about 1 in 123 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Lavina?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/lavinaThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Lavina”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.